• Existential is now a Mac app for Apple silicon. It lives in the menu bar, and Quit leaves your Oracle running.
  • Capture takes text or voice from anywhere, with encrypted drafts that survive interruptions.
  • Anyone with a GitHub account can sign in. Existential's operators can revoke one Mac, or a member's access to all of them. A guided first install downloads and verifies the engine, and it can move a command-line install aside and bring your notes across.
  • This version does not update itself. The next version will come with its own steps for moving to it.
  • The app is signed with Existential's own identity and not notarized by Apple, so macOS asks you to approve the first open with Open Anyway in System Settings, Privacy & Security.
  • Restore from a snapshot and Remove Existential (Keep my notes or Remove everything) are in the app. An interrupted restore finishes on the next run, and an interrupted removal reopens with Finish, Cancel or Resume.
  • The command is now existential. eos keeps working as an alias for this release.
  • Venice private inference runs end-to-end encrypted, and Existential checks the hardware attestation first. The receipt records Intel's rating for the machine.
  • Withdrawing a note keeps it out of new cloud requests, but replies or Briefs already written from it can still be sent. No signal leaves while master sharing is off.
  • Backups refuse linked folders and tell you which notes they hold only as links, and a restore keeps words you save while it runs.
  • Known issues: Venice is accepted on one pinned out-of-date Intel rating, shown on the receipt.